we need to eat

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i can already see where i'm headed. the scars on my wrist won't let me forget. all of the nights i've spent bent over the toilet thinking of every person who told me to just eat. every day i've spent angry over the number on the scale. my mother told me if i didn't eat something, i'd die and i didn't have the heart to tell her i've been trying.

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